In ‘Missionaries,’ Phil Klay Explores How ‘Wars Bleed Into Each Other’

Missionaries, by Phil Klay

In a new novel, the National Book Award winner takes readers around the world — from the chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan to turmoil in rural Colombia. It is not a “nice, clean, moral story,” he says.

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In a new novel, the National Book Award winner takes readers around the world — from the chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan to turmoil in rural Colombia. It is not a “nice, clean, moral story,” he says.